“We gathered our lifeless pieces and mixed them into one tune and we departed far away like wishes, but our watchful souls did not enjoy rest. Fate wanted death to take them from us while we were unaware. They were buried far from the soil of their land, and the dream of return was buried with them..! Years pass and …
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The Rojava Intellectuals of Kurdistan Union (HRRK) in his center in Qamishlo held a cultural and artistic debate to memorialize the twelfth anniversary passing of the popular artist “Muhammad Ali Tijo” under the title “Muhammad Ali Tijo, the Memory of Chyayi Kurminj- Kurds Mountain”. The debate began with the screening of a documentary film about artist’s life, the most important …
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With the beginning of the year 2024, cases of imposing taxes and collecting financial ransoms from indigenous people have not stopped, as the date set by the armed factions for the people approached and the cases of seizing agricultural crops decreased with the end of the olive harvest season. The faction of Sultan Suleiman Shah (Al-Amshat) had announced that the …
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On Wednesday, 17th January 2024, the military court in Al-Rai city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which is under the control of Syrian opposition factions, issued a death sentence against three members of the “Jaysh al-Sharqiya” faction of the Syrian National Army and acquitted another for killing four Kurdish citizens on the eve of Newroz night, 20th March 2023. …
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No group of society has been spared from the multiple violations committed by armed factions against indigenous people since the occupation of Afrin in March 2018. These violations also included vulnerable groups of children and women, in addition to the elderly, who have become targeted by murders, assaults, beatings, humiliation and imposed taxes on them. Also, they are subjected to …
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The pace of human rights violations in the Afrin region at the hands of armed factions affiliated with the Syrian National Army did not diminish by the end of 2023. Rather, these violations diversified and focused on the taxes imposed on olive harvests. The year ended with the arrest and torture of harvest owners. The areas under the control of …
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The Fourth Division of the Syrian Army imposes a tight siege on the Shahba area by controlling the checkpoints on the road between the city of Aleppo and the Shahba area – the northern countryside of Aleppo, which is under the control of the Autonomous Administration, and is the only reliable road to deliver fuel, medical supplies, and the monthly …
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A story of displacement My mother’s psychological condition deteriorated due to the fear of the shells, but I said: “No matter what happens, I will not leave my house”. Shells were falling around our house. We saw scout planes and helicopters hovering over the village. The idea of leaving the village did not occur to me for a moment. At …
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“I fear that the idea of returning to our land again, becomes just a dream that comes true with a will after death, because of the Afrin region situation after more than five years, and we are still displaced. I do not ignore the idea that my will becomes the following: that my body be transported after my death to …
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Member of the Lelun Association for Victims, Mr. Kawa Omar, participated in the sixteenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva, which was held over in 30 November and 1 December 2023. The representative of the “Lelun Association For Victims” delivered his speech at the forum, noting the violations that the Afrin region has witnessed since its occupation …
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